Overview
Languages
English
Student status
- No degree, certificate or diploma
- Full time enrollment
Work site environment
- Odours
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
- Wet/damp
Work setting
- Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment
- Manufacturing and industrial plant
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Food safety/handling skills
- Transport raw materials, finished products and packaging materials
- Measure and dump ingredients into hoppers of mixing and grinding machines
- Remove filled containers from conveyors
- Manually pack goods into bags and boxes or other containers
- Feed and unload processing machines
- Check products and packaging for basic quality defects
- Assist process control and machine operators in performing their duties
- Clean machines and immediate work areas
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
- Public transportation is available
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Repetitive tasks
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Standing for extended periods
- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Fast-paced environment
- Handling heavy loads
- Overtime required
- Physically demanding
- Work under pressure
Weight handling
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Flexibility
- Reliability
- Team player
Benefits
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement
- Bonus
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Team building opportunities
- Variable or compressed work week